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the kingdom to the other. It was so severe a one as but 

 rarely occurs during the summer season. September was 

 all that the husbandman could desire till near the middle, 

 when the weather became cold and rainy. Abundant 

 harvest. October was favourable for completing the 

 harvest, much of which was abroad in the late districts. 

 November was a succession of changes to all kinds of 

 weather, except settled and fine. Deluges of rain, with 

 hurricanes of wind, till the last week, when calm days and 

 frosty nights. 

 1840-41 Excessively severe winter (Brumham). 



February 23. Drought set in ( Whistlecraft). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, i6'43 m - January, 2'i6 in. 

 February, 1*09 in. March, 0*25 in. April, 0*09 in. 

 May, 1-87 in. June, 1-37 in. July, 1-50 in. August, 

 0-99 in. September, 2 '60 in. October, 1-48 in. No- 

 vember, 2*62 in. December, 0*41 in. (Glaisher), 



Began with continued rain till middle of February, 

 then a dry spring and summer till August 17. The crop 

 of hay was less than half a load per acre ( Cox). 



The season was unusually warm, and earlier than ever 

 I before noted. The heat was great from July 14 to Sep- 

 tember 22, with very little intermission. It was a year of 

 great drought ( Whistlecraft'). 



Maximum temperature 86 in Suffolk in August, and 

 from 80 to 85 1 on fourteen days at the same place 

 (Brumham). 



All April very dry, also June and July. August very 

 dry and hot ; and fine weather continued till September 

 13 (BruvihamJ). 



A very warm April, and great heat in summer. A dry 

 year (Brumhain). 



1841 Wheat, 645. 4^. per qr. ; barley, 32^. io^/. ; oats, 

 22s. $d. (Official Returns}. 



Value of ^100 tithe rent charge, ,102 i2s. 

 (Official Returns). 



